freetrader: Style very similar. Palahniuk more hilaric (not in Snuf, but in Choke e.g.), Coupland more philosophic. While reading it i was sometimes under the impression that i was reading Palahniuk. Are they the same, have they merged into one media event latley ?

Perhaps I've just lost my taste for the grotesque, but I did not enjoy this book very much, nor did I think it said anything terribly insightful.

There is one moment of shining brilliance that made me give this book one more star than it probably deserves. On page 35, when Kid 72 describes his suburban dad and his friends constructing model train sets of prostitutes and drug dealers, Palahniuk absolutely nails the middle class fetishization of urban decay. I could read an entire book about a group of messed-up suburbanites who get off on treating the drama of the extremely disadvantaged as their own personal soap opera, driving around the hood like it's some sort of depressing zoo. I wish he had written that book instead. ( )

I really enjoyed this book despite the subject matter. The back-stories of the characters were interesting and Palahniuk's prose often went into great detail about the minutiae of the porn industry. Having read Fight Club and Haunted, this did not surprise me. ( )

Wikipedia in English (1)

In the crowded greenroom of a porn-movie production, hundreds of men mill around in their boxers, awaiting their turn with the legendary Cassie Wright. An aging adult film star, Cassie Wright intends to cap her career by breaking the world record for serial fornication by having sex with 600 men on camera—one of whom may want to kill her. Told from the perspectives of Mr. 72, Mr. 137, Mr. 600, and Sheila, the talent wrangler who must keep it all under control, Snuff is a dark, wild, and lethally funny novel that brings the presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction.